31.   During both World Wars, the casemates were used as bomb shelters.

32.   During the Cuban missile crisis I built an elaborate bomb shelter under my house, complete with water, septic tank and canned food.

33.   During the Cuban missile crisis, my friends and I dug bomb shelters until we hit solid limestone.

34.   Every school has a perimeter fence, at least one armed guard, metal detectors and a bomb shelter big enough to hold all the students.

35.   Fearing Hezbollah reprisals, the Israeli army ordered frontier residents into bomb shelters, but hundreds chose instead to leave and drive far out of Katyusha rocket range.

36.   Every evening at dusk we were taken by our parents to sleep in the bomb shelter we had built in our garden.

37.   For many years, Israeli mothers had to place their children into bomb shelters for the night in the town of Neve Ur on the Jordanian border.

38.   Gabriela decided she liked the bomb shelter just the way it was.

39.   Gone are the endless holidays from school spent in basement bomb shelters, the ever-present fear of snipers.

40.   However, in one sign that Israel may be planning a restrained reaction, Israeli officials were not ordering residents of northern Israel into bomb shelters.